tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16760083448338184592024-03-13T07:52:57.964-07:00La petite tornadeFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-40414216996842098972011-12-06T19:17:00.001-08:002012-01-09T20:51:31.673-08:00Almond molten cakeOn a recent trip to France I acquired a new recipe for little almond molten cakes, they are truly delicious (sceal of approval by my "almost" 4 years old friend who has a sweet tooth).
Here is this super easy recipe, impress your guests with it:
Almond molten lava cakes
For 4 people
Ingredients
100 gr Almond meal
100 gr Powdered sugar
70 gr Unsalted butter, melted
6 TBSPFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-77163919454763632902011-01-31T09:52:00.000-08:002012-01-09T20:52:03.212-08:00Fruit crispHere is a simple, healthy and tasty dessert to make on cold winter nights that will get the thumbs up from everyone.
Fruit crisp
Ingredients for topping
1 1/4 cup rolled oats
1 cup packed Brown sugar
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 stick butter
3/4 cup almonds toasted and roughly chopped
1/2 Lemon juice
Fruits of your choice
I like using apples & pears cut in small FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-89132186401726709932010-04-19T17:46:00.000-07:002010-09-19T18:45:15.440-07:00Rhubarb and strawberry tartThe rhubarb plants my friend gave me last year are thriving.
This acid plant is usually paired with strawberries to mellow it out, I like this combination and decided to make something out of it for a simple dessert between friends.
Rhubarb and strawberry tart
For a 23 or 26 cm tart pan (9 or 10 inches)
Pastry
Ingredients
125 gr unbleached white flour
62.5 gr butter (cold)
45 gr cold water
1 FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-57980272392686671092010-03-13T08:46:00.000-08:002010-09-19T21:59:13.863-07:00Coconut cake/cookiesMy friend's 2 year old daughter has a higher sensitivity to gluten and dairy but also has a sweet tooth, knowing that I have modified a recipe I had to accommodate her restrictions and it was a hit. Now every time she visits she asks: "il y a du gâteau?" (is there cake?).
Gâteau noix de coco - Coconut cake
A 9" / 23 cm square silicon mould
Ingredients
3 eggs separated
9 Tbsp Sugar
4 Tbsp FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-58222365482673901702010-02-19T16:40:00.000-08:002010-04-08T16:59:40.503-07:00Mardi Gras - Part 2 - Crêpes / Crêpes SuzetteWhile the galettes are savoury the "crêpes" are typically sweet, served with a sweet filling.
Here is a recipe that I modified to make it lighter.
Crêpes
For about 20 crêpes 9” diameter
Ingredients
1 ¾ cup All Purpose Flour 250 gr
2 Egg 2
2 cups Milk 500 ml
1 Tbsp Sugar 1 Tbsp
1 pinch Salt
Flavour with 1 Tbsp Rum or Kirsch or Orange flower water or/& vanilla
Alternate recipe: FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-56806518764166772532010-02-18T09:58:00.000-08:002010-03-10T10:21:15.174-08:00Mardi Gras - Part 1 - Buckwheat crêpesIn France and even more so in Brittany we have a tradition on Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), the day before Ash Wednesday (this year it was on Tuesday 16th Feb.), to make galettes and crêpes, the galettes are typically topped with a savory filling, while the crêpes are sweet, here is a recipe that works quite well for the galettes.
Galettes au sarrasin – Buckwheat crêpes (savory) For about 15 galettesFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-52027814665482825852010-01-20T14:27:00.000-08:002010-03-10T13:33:48.487-08:00Gluten free, dairy free, egg free bread
When looking for gluten free breads it seems there is always eggs and milk added, to me these ingredients mean making a cake not a bread, so I decided to try creating a new GF bread without eggs or dairy and the final product turned out really nice and tasty, like real gluten bread. The bread got eaten before I had time to take a picture!
Gluten free, dairy free, egg free breadIngredients15 gr&FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-19415369401241575122010-01-08T10:05:00.000-08:002010-02-10T14:22:28.011-08:00Galette des rois
In France 6th January marks the celebration of Epiphany, the coming of the 3 kings or the Three Magi: Balthasar, Melchior and Gaspar bringing offerings to Jesus Christ, and as most traditions in France we celebrate with food, in this case it is the Galette des Rois. The bakeries go crazy over this and you can find galettes from December until February, the quality varies greatly, but if youFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-76561915167939959272010-01-05T13:51:00.000-08:002010-02-10T21:16:21.420-08:00Puff pastry - Pâte feuilletée
I have always loved making desserts and baking but was shying away from making real puff pastry with a pre-conceived idea that it would be too hard to make and would take too much time. Nonetheless I kept researching about it and finaly decided to go for it. Here is a fairly straightforward method that will give you really amazing results. Slightly different than a previous version already FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-51323653592069570112009-12-31T23:59:00.000-08:002010-01-01T10:21:58.391-08:00Happy New Year
As yet another year ends I want to wish you all out there in the net space a wonderfull New Year 2010, I hope it will be filled with happiness, good health, good friends, good food and good drinks.
FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-6512135186824376062009-12-13T18:51:00.000-08:002010-01-12T10:43:43.799-08:00My latest endeavourA lot of time has gone by (again) since my last post, that is not to say I haven't been busy, in fact a lot of cooking happened since.
A couple of cooking classes, a big catering gig and here I am again.
A few samples to water your mouths and the menu.
* Piquillo peppers dip served with home made whole wheat crackers
* Hot artichoke dip served with home made crostini
* Mini tourtes à FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-84085323798342040622009-11-05T09:37:00.000-08:002009-11-09T15:25:04.174-08:00An autumn meal - Beef Bourguignon
Where have I been might you wonder, well, France, Ireland, US road trip, all this has kept me very busy and not afforded me a lot of time for blogging. So while autumn is upon us, here is a very easy and delicious recipe to make and share in these cooler days.
You start the marinade on day one, cook on day 2 and serve on day 3.
Boeuf Bourguignon For 6 people Ingredients 3 lbs FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-12127978835015923682009-08-13T11:28:00.000-07:002009-08-13T12:02:06.413-07:00The perfect burger bun - Brioche burger bunA few weeks ago we had our neigborhood progressive picnic and the main course of the picnic was held at our house, we had to provide the burger buns and I had wanted to make them for quite some time so I launched myself into this new project, after some investigation and calculation (who said you didn't need to know your maths for baking? it's all about percentages!) I developped this recipe thatFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-68223264057360696452009-07-28T09:00:00.000-07:002009-07-28T09:28:46.496-07:00Mini brunch briochesHere is a lighter brioche that can be enjoyed with sweet or savory food in-lieu of bread.It is best to make this over 2 days, day one prepping the dough, day 2 shaping and rising.Alternately you can prepare the dough in the morning and shape, rise and bake in the evening.Mini briochesFor 43 briochesIngredients3 Tbsp water30 gr fresh yeast / 15 gr / 4 tsp active dry yeast 75 gr / 1/3 cup heap FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-70838582679756648572009-07-27T09:50:00.001-07:002009-07-28T09:34:23.388-07:00A summer fare...What better excuse than a birthday to organise a little get together and share some home made food?Top it up with fantastic summer weather and you got it all!On the menu of this simple brunch:Vegetarian quicheCrab quicheHome smoked Alaska salmon - Poached Alaska salmon Grilled vegetable terrineGarden baby greens saladMini brioche (a lighter version than this one) - Check back for a future post FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-27617087528510525272009-07-23T11:08:00.000-07:002009-07-24T09:23:20.495-07:00Raspberried out! With this hot weather we have been experiencing for the past 2 months the raspberry bushes are full of fruits, so I made my liquor again (pictured) and tried a new by product of the wonderful raspberries: Raspberry vinegarIngredients600 gr fruits 600 ml white wine vinegar 600 ml cider vinegar6 Tbsp sugarA couple of big clean jarsMethod Crush the berries in a food mill or with a fork, pour the FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-74811544205065440702009-07-13T11:05:00.000-07:002009-07-19T10:37:36.262-07:00What's for dinner?... For the past couple of month with the good weather I have spent so much time outside that my inspiration for cooking has taken a back seat, yesterday we finally had substantial rain fall (which is great for my garden and for my creativity in the kitchen) so we spent a few hours at the Seattle center for the Bastille day celebration and when we returned home I wanted to have a nice but easy FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-25161387348615455552009-06-15T10:00:00.000-07:002010-10-12T14:03:38.117-07:00Strawberry fields...forever...It is the season again, the lovely fruity strawberries are back in full force.
I recently made this simple and tasty version of strawberry tart.
Have fun making it and sharing it.
Strawberry tart –Tarte aux fraises
For 1 x 10 ½ inch tart pan
Ingredients
Half the recipe of short dough/pâte sablée (see separate post)
½ pound Fresh clean strawberries
Bavarian FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-58922144435192426932009-06-15T09:21:00.000-07:002009-07-07T09:54:41.629-07:00Bavarian creamBavarian cream Pastry cream/crème pâtissière Ingredients ½ pint / 240 ml Whole milk ½ oz / 1 ½ Tbsp / 15 gr Cornstarch 2 oz / 4 ½ Tbsp / 57 gr Sugar 1 pinch of Salt 1 Egg ¼ tsp Vanilla extract2 oz / 2 Tbsp / 27 gr Butter (can be FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-44859258016680366932009-06-14T08:38:00.000-07:002009-07-07T09:17:59.504-07:00Pâte sablée - Short doughShort dough – Pâte sablée For 2 x 10 ½ inch tart pan Ingredients 1 ¾ cup / 250 gr All Purpose Flour 1 stick + 1 Tbsp / 125 gr Butter 1 Egg ½ cup + 1 Tbsp / 125 gr Sugar½ tsp Vanilla extract Method Combine flour and butter in a mixing bowl and pulse until you obtain a crumble. Add egg, sugar and vanilla and pulse until well mixed, but do not overwork the dough, otherwise it FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-53303607247377055632009-05-31T10:00:00.000-07:002009-06-01T12:37:07.128-07:00Another month...<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-86720897859301316832009-04-30T09:34:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:55:57.367-07:00Mountain beaver??..Spring is upon us again which means I have spent a lot of time in the garden rather than in the kitchen this month of April.If you remember, last year a mountain beaver chopped my newly planted leeks. So this year I completely surrounded my vegetable garden beds with fencing hoping this would detter the little creature.So what a surprise when one morning I looked over and saw this little guy FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-66239046941775838812009-03-22T18:15:00.000-07:002009-03-22T18:44:17.365-07:00Short crust Flaky dough/Pâte briséeHere is a very versatile pastry dough a friend of mine gave me, it is perfect and works every time, the secret is to not overwork the dough. Short crust Flaky doughFor 1 x 11 to 12" (28 to 30 cm) diameter tart dishIngredients200 gr / 1.5 cup All purpose flour113 gr / 1 stick unsalted butter, cold and diced1/2 Tsp salt75 gr / 4 TBSP ice cold water (place a couple of ice cubes in a glass of water)FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-22506101119121750682009-03-22T15:52:00.001-07:002009-03-22T18:38:49.983-07:00Last minute "steak" and Guinness pieLast Tuesday I got home at 17h and given that it was St Patrick's day and my history with Ireland we had to have something Irish for dinner, so I put together a last minute Guinness pie with what I had in the fridge.Last minute "steak" and Guinness pieFor 6 (or 4 very hungry appetites!)Ingredients3 slices Bacon, chopped1 big yellow Onion1 TBSP brown sugar6 Mushrooms, sliced1 bottle Guinness 12 flFrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1676008344833818459.post-62450983354596873202009-03-17T21:11:00.000-07:002009-03-17T21:24:26.671-07:00Happy St Patrick's day! The recipe of this Guiness pie will follow shortly,in the meantime have a very happy St Patrick's day! FrenchTornadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12241559296105600864noreply@blogger.com0